Aaron Blackshear
@aaronblackshear.bsky.social
Anxious Minnesotan. Actuary turned basketball data analyst. Bike lane protector
I do not speak for my employer the bad opinions are mine alone
I do not speak for my employer the bad opinions are mine alone
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The dudes (it’s always dudes) who want to work in basketball analytics and tell me “I built a tool for predicting player prop bets” are always a surprised when I tell them to go to hell
February 11, 2026 at 2:34 AM
The dudes (it’s always dudes) who want to work in basketball analytics and tell me “I built a tool for predicting player prop bets” are always a surprised when I tell them to go to hell
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When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.
seen in my neighborhood in south Minneapolis
February 10, 2026 at 11:56 PM
When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.
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A parent at my kids’ school was abducted a few hours ago.
Please help us help the family with legal expenses and care for their elementary school son (who doesn’t even know his dad was taken yet 💔):
gofund.me/20a5b26ab
Please help us help the family with legal expenses and care for their elementary school son (who doesn’t even know his dad was taken yet 💔):
gofund.me/20a5b26ab
Donate to Support Byron Cabrera's Legal Defense and Son's Care, organized by Luz Riofrio
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gofund.me
February 10, 2026 at 11:31 PM
A parent at my kids’ school was abducted a few hours ago.
Please help us help the family with legal expenses and care for their elementary school son (who doesn’t even know his dad was taken yet 💔):
gofund.me/20a5b26ab
Please help us help the family with legal expenses and care for their elementary school son (who doesn’t even know his dad was taken yet 💔):
gofund.me/20a5b26ab
Friday Fish Fry at a divey place in Wisconsin, with a bottle of malt vinegar of extremely dubious age
While Buffalo wings are now a ubiquitous app all over the country, not every regional food goes national. What cuisine from YOUR region do you most want to share with the country/world?
February 10, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Friday Fish Fry at a divey place in Wisconsin, with a bottle of malt vinegar of extremely dubious age
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Ironic, since Frey shouted “fuck” and got a bunch of national media interviews, but has done fuck-all since.
In the Skyway 20 minutes after an ice abduction, mayor Frey walks through the government center. A lady yells at him "what are you doing to stop this? Fuck you." He responds, "is that helpful?" With a smirk on his face.
February 10, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Ironic, since Frey shouted “fuck” and got a bunch of national media interviews, but has done fuck-all since.
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If you're outside Minnesota, Malcolm Yards is an extremely large and boujee food hall, not like a small ethnic restaurant -- we are under a straight up economic blockade
ICE is having a devastating impact on our small businesses here in Minneapolis. Businesses are having to close because of the terror ICE is inflicting on our community.
Now is the time to reach out to your federal representative to let them know you don’t support funding DHS.
Now is the time to reach out to your federal representative to let them know you don’t support funding DHS.
February 10, 2026 at 8:13 PM
If you're outside Minnesota, Malcolm Yards is an extremely large and boujee food hall, not like a small ethnic restaurant -- we are under a straight up economic blockade
For my Milwaukee friends, this is like Silver Spring and Diversey in Whitefish Bay
It’s hard to overstate how mainstream defiance of the federal occupation of Minnesota is. This is from 5:00 yesterday at 50th and France. 50th and France! Minnesotans aren’t having this.
February 10, 2026 at 7:08 PM
For my Milwaukee friends, this is like Silver Spring and Diversey in Whitefish Bay
Your coffee quickly cooling down when you put it in a thermos
This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf...
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Your coffee quickly cooling down when you put it in a thermos
This is why everyone in Minneapolis was telling you not to trust our mayor even though he was all cool and edgy and said a naughty word on TV
Hosting the border czar and ICE agents in City Hall (and its parking areas) is a violation of the City’s separation ordinance and broader City policy. These are in place to protect our residents and City staff.
February 10, 2026 at 2:39 AM
This is why everyone in Minneapolis was telling you not to trust our mayor even though he was all cool and edgy and said a naughty word on TV
I will always associate In Living Color with the night I was watching it when I heard gunshots, my pops shooting up the neighbors house. Almost got shot by the police for his trouble
I would never advocate such a thing, BUT, that dude stopped messing with our stuff and creeping on my sisters
I would never advocate such a thing, BUT, that dude stopped messing with our stuff and creeping on my sisters
‘We stole the Super Bowl audience’: how In Living Color pulled off the greatest heist in US TV history l The Guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM26
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM26
‘We stole the Super Bowl audience’: how In Living Color pulled off the greatest heist in US TV history
Turning Point USA is plotting its own half-time broadcast in defiance of Bad Bunny – but one of TV’s Blackest shows already perfected the alt-cast in 1992
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I will always associate In Living Color with the night I was watching it when I heard gunshots, my pops shooting up the neighbors house. Almost got shot by the police for his trouble
I would never advocate such a thing, BUT, that dude stopped messing with our stuff and creeping on my sisters
I would never advocate such a thing, BUT, that dude stopped messing with our stuff and creeping on my sisters
Oof, that “Latinos” 24 seconds in……
I mean I certainly can’t do it, but I’ll call my sister and she can
I mean I certainly can’t do it, but I’ll call my sister and she can
Megyn Kelly just shouting “FOOTBALL IS OURS” at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space.
February 10, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Oof, that “Latinos” 24 seconds in……
I mean I certainly can’t do it, but I’ll call my sister and she can
I mean I certainly can’t do it, but I’ll call my sister and she can
If I see my doctor using chat gpt call an attorney and gather up some bail money
this may be a radical take BUT I think we should proceed cautiously with the rushed integration of half-cooked automation into problematic business sectors in a broadly-corrupt country without functional regulatory oversight
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:27 PM
If I see my doctor using chat gpt call an attorney and gather up some bail money
I won’t even go on an international vacation because I don’t want to be on a plane for more than 3 hours ain’t no goddamn way I’m going to the moon. Who all gone be there anyway?
February 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I won’t even go on an international vacation because I don’t want to be on a plane for more than 3 hours ain’t no goddamn way I’m going to the moon. Who all gone be there anyway?
Hannah Puerto Rico is going to start a civil war
when i save "hannah montana implies the existence of 49 other hannahs" as a draft, what good does that do except delay your eventual suffering?
February 9, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Hannah Puerto Rico is going to start a civil war
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very strange to read a piece whose premise seems to be “i think you are too stupid to go look at the magazine i run and the writers i employ and see if i am telling the truth”
February 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
very strange to read a piece whose premise seems to be “i think you are too stupid to go look at the magazine i run and the writers i employ and see if i am telling the truth”
Real posters don’t use drafts, tweet that shit. Never draft never delete, stream of consciousness
February 9, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Real posters don’t use drafts, tweet that shit. Never draft never delete, stream of consciousness
Sometimes it’s not a wrong number text scam, sometimes your mechanic switches which spouse they are texting mid stream
February 9, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Sometimes it’s not a wrong number text scam, sometimes your mechanic switches which spouse they are texting mid stream
It’s not just that they’re wrong, which they clearly are, it’s also that after everything that’s happened over the last decade the Libertarians gotta STFU
We’ve all been watching, you’re not beating the “just republicans that smoke pot and oppose age of consent laws” allegations
We’ve all been watching, you’re not beating the “just republicans that smoke pot and oppose age of consent laws” allegations
February 9, 2026 at 8:09 PM
It’s not just that they’re wrong, which they clearly are, it’s also that after everything that’s happened over the last decade the Libertarians gotta STFU
We’ve all been watching, you’re not beating the “just republicans that smoke pot and oppose age of consent laws” allegations
We’ve all been watching, you’re not beating the “just republicans that smoke pot and oppose age of consent laws” allegations
Book GWAR you cowards
Okay but on the other hand they should let Geese do the halftime show next year
February 9, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Book GWAR you cowards
They’re saying a tangible fear of 12 packs of La Croix has drivers being more cautious
February 9, 2026 at 7:36 PM
They’re saying a tangible fear of 12 packs of La Croix has drivers being more cautious
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It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.
interc.pt
February 9, 2026 at 6:57 PM
It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.
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Twin Cities Friends:
Does anyone have a used or new high back booster to donate to community transportation efforts at my kids' school?
DM me!
Does anyone have a used or new high back booster to donate to community transportation efforts at my kids' school?
DM me!
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Twin Cities Friends:
Does anyone have a used or new high back booster to donate to community transportation efforts at my kids' school?
DM me!
Does anyone have a used or new high back booster to donate to community transportation efforts at my kids' school?
DM me!
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